Autobiographies is the first volume in Edward Thomas: Prose
Writings: A Selected Edition. It contains the autobiographical
prose of one of the most respected British writers of the twentieth
century, including the autobiographical story The Happy-Go-Lucky
Morgans, the posthumously published 'autobiography' The Childhood
of Edward Thomas, the essay 'How I Began', the previously
unpublished 'Addenda to Autobiography', and a long section from
'Fiction' (also previously unpublished). In these works, all
written between 1912 and 1914, Thomas provides a remarkable
portrait of his childhood and teenage years in London, Wiltshire,
and Wales. Writing this prose was a journey away from a troubled
present back into earlier and happier experiences, but these unique
autobiographies also have much in common with his other prose
works. The complexity and brilliance of Thomas's autobiographical
prose is discussed and revealed in a long introduction, by a
detailed headnote at the start of each work, and by extensive
annotation. Thomas's prose has never previously been given the
scholarly attention that it receives here. Although Thomas's
autobiographies are very accessible, and written with a longing for
the simplicity of childhood, they are also intricately woven, using
many quotations and allusions. The longest of the works, The
Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans, is both his simplest prose work and his
most complex. Indeed, Autobiographies contains some of Thomas's
finest prose, written in the two years, and in some cases merely a
few months, before his decision to start writing the poetry for
which he is most, and greatly, esteemed. Edward Thomas: Prose
Writings: A Selected Edition will appeal to those who know and
admire his prose, as well as those who have never encountered it
before, and show that Thomas's prose, not least his
autobiographical prose, deserves to be much better known.
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